The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 73

Then a bracelet which was hanging from a chandelier caught her eye, and on taking it down she was greatly surprised to find that it held a portrait of her unknown admirer, just as she had seen him in her dream.

Who acts: bracelet, Beast · What happens: hang, catch, take down, be, find, hold · To what, where: chandelier, eye, bracelet, portrait, first, dream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bracelet, Beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 caught	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bracelet	det
3	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hanging	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hanging	aux
6	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bracelet	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 chandelier	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chandelier	det
9	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hanging	obl
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eye	nmod:poss
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 surprised	cc
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 taking	mark
16	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 surprised	csubj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taking	obj
18	down	down	ADP	_	16 taking	compound:prt
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 surprised	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	cop
21	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	22 surprised	advmod
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 caught	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 surprised	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 held	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 find	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 portrait	det
29	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 admirer	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 admirer	nmod:poss
32	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 admirer	amod
33	admirer	admirer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 portrait	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
35	just	just	ADV	_	39 seen	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 seen	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 seen	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 held	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 seen	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 dream	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 dream	nmod:poss
43	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · progressive	a bracelet		a chandelier			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	catch	past	a bracelet	Beast's eye		then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	take down	gerund		bracelet				vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	past	Beast				greatly, surprised property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	Beast not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	hold	past	bracelet	a portrait of Beast's unknown admirer				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme
7	see	past · perfect	Beast	first	Beast's dream			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	portray			Beast's unknown admirer				nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	dream		Beast					nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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